Apollo Hospitals, India’s first multispecialty chain of hospitals reached a new milestone with over 1500 successful Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) procedures conducted on patients across the Apollo Hospitals Group. The 1500 patients treated at Apollo BMT units have come from all over India including Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Kozhikode, Gujarat, West Bengal as well as from foreign countries like Oman, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Dubai, UAE, and Mauritius. Apollo Hospitals, Chennai was the first hospital to conduct India’s first cord blood transplant and unrelated transplant, and the 1500 BMT landmark carried out successfully across the group hospitals endorses the success of these high end procedures for both children and adults with survival rates comparable to western centres. Bone marrow transplantation saves the lives of patients with blood cancer and serious blood disorders like thalassemia major, aplastic anemia and primary immune deficiency. Read more

Apollo Spectra Hospitals, the leading surgery specialists in the country along with Regenerative Medical Services Pvt. Ltd., (Regrow) the first Indian Biotechnology Company together marks another milestone in the country’s medical history by performing a revolutionary bone cell therapy OSSGROW on a 44-year-old accident survivor from Bangalore. A team of doctors led by Dr Gautam Kodikal from Apollo Spectra Hospitals successfully performed the new generation regenerative medical treatment on Mr Rajkumar, who was intensely suffering from the condition called avascular necrosis, which had progressed post meeting with an accident. The surgery was done at Apollo Spectra Hospitals and Regrow’ s center at Koramangala, Bangalore. Read more